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    State and trends of carbon pricing 2016

    2016
    Reflecting the growing momentum for carbon pricing worldwide, the 2016 edition of the State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report targets the wide audience of public and private stakeholders engaged in carbon pricing design and implementation.
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    Cost-Benefit analysis of disaster risk reduction: a synthesis for informed decision making

    Aktion Deutschland Hilft, 2016
    Annual economic losses and fatalities caused by natural disasters are subject to large fluctuations and are strongly linked to extreme events such as the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, cyclone Nargis in 2008 or the Haiti earthquake of 2010 (CRED, 2015). However, there is a clear trend of increasing economic and human losses over the last 40 years.
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    Aktion Deutschland Hilft

    Aktion Deutschland Hilft is a coalition of German relief organisations providing fast and effective help in severe catastrophes.
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    The State of Food and Agriculture 2016: climate change, agriculture and food security

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    In adopting the goals of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the international communit y took responsibility for building a sustainable future. But meeting the goals of eradicating hunger and poverty by 2030, while addressing the threat of climate change, will require a profound transformation of food and agriculture systems worldwide.
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    Climate change, children and poverty: engaging children and youth in policy debate and action

    Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2016
    Children’s vulnerability to climate change can be understood as an intersection of three axes. The first is exposure; the extent to which children live in a physical location that is vulnerable to drought, floods, extreme weather events and sea level rise.
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    The Republic of the Marshall Islands: disaster management reference handbook

    Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, 2016
    The Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series is intended to provide decision makers, planners, responders and disaster management practitioners with an overview of the disaster management structure, policies, laws, and plans for each country covered in the series. Natural and man-made threats most likely to affect the country are discussed.
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    Poverty & death: disaster and mortality 1996-2015

    Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2016
    The period 1996 to 2015 saw 7,056 disasters recorded worldwide by EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database.
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    No sense of ownership in weak participation: a forest conservation experiment in Tanzania

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016
    Sense of ownership is often advocated as an argument for local participation within the epistemic development and nature conservation communities. Stakeholder participation in initiating, designing or implementing institutions is claimed to establish a sense of ownership among the stakeholders and subsequently improve the intended outcomes of the given institution.
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    Adaptation measures in agricultural systems: Messages to the SBSTA 44 Agriculture Workshops

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2016
    It is well recognized that if livelihoods and food security of farmers are to be improved in the face of climate change challenges, adaptation measures at massive scale will be needed. This will require an enabling environment to catalyse the positive behavioural changes that will be needed to move towards climate resilient food systems.
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    Agricultural practices and technologies to enhance food security, resilience and productivity in a sustainable manner: messages to the SBSTA 44 agriculture workshops

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2016
    This paper synthesizes knowledge within CGIAR and its partners on agricultural practices and technologies to enhance food security, resilience and productivity in a sustainable manner. A number of agricultural practices and technologies which contribute to these objectives were identified and assessed to generate four key lessons.

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